Air Pollution

Coal Was The Future Once

The UK government has announced that it intends to build a new coalmine, the first in three decades, at Whitehaven in Cumbria. A decision that has received objections locally as well as across the co...

From Seed To Solar

Picture This: Conversations

Biodiversity & Nature Recorded as part of the launch event for our Picture This: exhibition. The fourth photograph selected by our guest host Atul Kumar was by The Mersey Forest. In this p...

Picture This: Conversations

Carbon Zero Transport Recorded as part of the launch event for Carbon Copy's Picture This: exhibition. The third photograph selected by guest host Atul Kumar was by Car-Free Norwich. In this p...

Pictures to warm your heart (not the planet!)

Writing this on a ridiculously wet Monday morning in June, I can think of nothing more uplifting than to wander through the newly-opened online gallery of Carbon Copy’s Picture This: photographic exh...

Lucas Lyko: A to B, Carbon Free

Making transport work for us and the planet starts with changes at home. With transport continuing to make up a third of the UK’s carbon emissions, our sustained demand for hypermobility and goods ma...

Creating A Coalition

This is part of our Unlocking Local Action series of events. Community is the lens so often left out of the environmental discussion, but it’s vital in implementing lasting solutions. Rather than...

Hope From Action

“The Audacity of Action” is the name of the Carbon Copy blog about local climate action around the UK. It’s a nod to Barack Obama’s inspiring book, “The Audacity of Hope”, and the phrase he used in o...

Get to know... Nicola Davidson

Carbon Copy Communications Manager Isabelle Sparrow chats to Nicola Davidson, co-Director of MaidEnergy - a not for profit volunteer-led society offering local people the opportunity to invest in sol...

Get to know... Nicola Kench

Carbon Copy Communications Manager Isabelle Sparrow speaks to Nicola Kench, volunteer with North Kensington Community Energy (NKCE), a project run by Repowering London. In this episode of our "Ge...

Sat Kaur: Timeless Principles For Eco Homes

The Government’s new Green Home Grants scheme is now live. Low-income households and private homeowners are being offered vouchers of up to £10,000 and £5,000 respectively to ‘wrap up [their homes] f...

Toolkit: 31 Actions

Ashden's mission is to accelerate transformative climate solutions and build a more just world. Our focus is where the need is urgent and the potential for impact great: creating liveable cities and...

Adam Tranter: It’s Time To Choose Our Future!

Just 6% of people want to go back to the way things were, cites a recent YouGov poll. It’s an incredible but believable stat given what we’ve all learned about ourselves and our communities during lo...

Matt White: Norfolk Car-Free Day 2020

2019 saw the inaugural Norwich Car-Free Day. Our plan to expand and grow seemed so simple back then, but - of course - COVID has thrown some gigantic spanners in all the works. COVID cast a shadow...

Power By The People, For The People

Energy democracy is an exciting international movement which has been steadily gathering momentum, and is having an increasing impact in the UK. Its revolutionary premise is that energy users shou...

Green Spaces And Health

“Wash your hands for the time it takes to sing Happy Birthday twice!”  Yes, an unlooked-for benefit of the coronavirus pandemic is that we all know a lot more now than we used to about how to av...

Asher Craig: Social Inclusion

Having identified the equalities issues endemic to the environmental sector, we have spent the last four years at Bristol City Council learning and acting to address these issues. These will inform o...

Bicycle Mayors

We cannot reduce overall carbon emissions and meet legislated national targets without addressing head on the UK’s biggest emitter, the transport sector. The main source of these emissions are the pe...

Can We Walk Away From Owning A Car?

It’s mind-boggling when you think about it. As much as fifty percent - yes, half - of inner-city land consists of roads and parking spaces, reports the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. In one of the UK’s...

People’s Green New Deal

The Green New Deal is an ambitious plan to secure a safe climate and fairer society, by totally transforming our economy. It is not intended to be a single policy, but a bold programme of policies, i...